Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2455
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Geoff Stults works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Geoff Stults appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Geoff. Only the Brave is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for drama, thriller, war. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Joseph Kosinski, Clint Eastwood, Kat Coiro and others, Geoff Stults helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Only the Brave (2017) as Travis Turbyfill · The Den (2022) as Jamie · She's Out of My League (2010) as Cam
Career snapshot
Ranked #2455 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2005–2022
Career length
17 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Only the Brave
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
The Den
Most frequent director
Joseph Kosinski
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Joseph Kosinski
Most common genre
Drama
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.4
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2020s
6.6 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. The Den — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.6
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
10.0
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Break-Up, In The Mix, Wedding Crashers.
Most productive era
2010s
6 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.21 film | 6.55 films | 6.61 film |
| Action | — | 6.51 film | — |
| Thriller | — | — | 6.61 film |
| Comedy | 6.33 films | 6.33 films | — |
| Crime | 6.21 film | 6.41 film | — |
| Romance | 6.33 films | 6.33 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2005In The Mix
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Chad.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2017Only the Brave
7.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2022The Den
The current state of the argument, as Jamie.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
10 of 10 films
as Travis Turbyfill
Directed by Joseph Kosinski
as Craig
Directed by David Dobkin
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Travis Turbyfill
Only the Brave (2017)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Travis Turbyfill gives Geoff Stults a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Jamie
The Den (2022)
Performance score7.0
The Den asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jamie is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Sean Coffers
12 Strong (2018)
Performance score6.7
12 Strong asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sean Coffers is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Cam
She's Out of My League (2010)
Performance score6.6
She's Out of My League asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cam is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Travis Turbyfill
Start here. Only the Brave is the clearest statement of what Geoff Stults does — accessible, 133 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Geoff at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Wedding Crashers (2005)
A deliberate change of key after Only the Brave — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
She's Out of My League (2010)
Keeps the romance register of Wedding Crashers but asks for a colder reading of it.
12 Strong (2018)
A deliberate change of key after She's Out of My League — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Den (2022)
Same director as 12 Strong, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
David Dobkin
Director
1 film together
Notably Wedding Crashers
Ron Underwood
Director
1 film together
Notably In The Mix
Peyton Reed
Director
1 film together
Notably The Break-Up
Jim Field Smith
Director
1 film together
Notably She's Out of My League
Kat Coiro
Director
1 film together
Notably L!fe Happens
Clint Eastwood
Director
1 film together
Notably J. Edgar
Joseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together
Notably Only the Brave
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Joseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Only the BraveJim Field Smith
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
She's Out of My LeagueDavid Dobkin
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wedding CrashersClint Eastwood
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
J. EdgarRon Underwood
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
In The MixPeyton Reed
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Break-UpKat Coiro
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
L!fe HappensSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Only the Brave
as Travis Turbyfill
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Only the Brave
as Travis Turbyfill
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Only the Brave
as Travis Turbyfill
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Sierra Burgess Is a Loser
as Coach Johnson
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Only the Brave
as Travis Turbyfill
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Geoff Stults has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
7 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Only the Brave
as Travis Turbyfill
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Only the Brave
as Travis Turbyfill
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Only the Brave
as Travis Turbyfill
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
J. Edgar
as Raymond Caffrey
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Only the Brave
as Travis Turbyfill
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
12 Strong
as Sean Coffers
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
In The Mix
as Chad
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
L!fe Happens
as Nicolas
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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